10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

A man is a god in ruins.

When men are innocent,

life shall be longer,

and shall pass into the immortal,

as gently as we awake from dreams.

Every man supposes himself

not to be fully understood or appreciated.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Philosophically considered,

the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us,

all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is,

both nature and art,

all other men and my own body,

must be ranked under this name,

Nature.

Flowers... are a proud assertion

that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is

the influence of good women.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

In every society some,

men are born to rule,

and some to advise.

A great part of courage is

the courage of having done the thing before.

Nature is a mutable cloud

which is always and never the same.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Every particular in nature,

a leaf,

a drop,

a crystal,

a moment of time is related to the whole,

and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

No change of circumstances

can repair a defect of character.

Every book is a quotation;

and every house is a quotation out of all forests,

and mines,

and stone quarries;

and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Trust your instinct to the end,

though you can render no reason.

The secret of ugliness

consists not in irregularity,

but in being uninteresting.

Great hearts steadily send forth

the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

The earth laughs in flowers.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life

that no one can sincerely try to help another

without helping himself.